Cow’s Milk
#f1ede5
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f1ede5
RGB
241, 237, 229
OKLCh
94.7% 0.011 84.6°
CIELAB (D50)
93.9, 0.4, 4.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 120 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses only 21% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 8.0; on black, Lc -96.3. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 6.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.17:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.99:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.99:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7a766f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#f1ede5
protanopia
#edede5 · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#eeeee5 · ΔE00 2.2
tritanopia
#efefd8 · ΔE00 6.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLinen Ruffle at ΔE00 0.424: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Linen RuffleΔE00 0.424 · #efebe3
- Silky WhiteΔE00 0.628 · #efebe2
- Antique PaperΔE00 0.63 · #f4f0e8
- Solid OpalΔE00 0.638 · #eeeae2
- Broken WhiteΔE00 0.699 · #eeebe3
- CarraraΔE00 0.756 · #eeebe4
- Crisp CottonΔE00 0.758 · #f4f0e7
- Latte FrothΔE00 0.78 · #f3f0e8
- Cold FoamΔE00 0.802 · #efece3
- Pearl DropsΔE00 0.848 · #f0ebe4
- Villa WhiteΔE00 0.849 · #efeae1
- Coconut MilkΔE00 0.898 · #eeebe2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.